6-letter words containing m
- chiasm — chiasma (sense 1) chiasma (sense 2)
- chicom — Slang: Disparaging.. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Communist Chinese.
- chimar — chimere
- chimed — an apparatus for striking a bell so as to produce a musical sound, as one at the front door of a house by which visitors announce their presence.
- chimer — an apparatus for striking a bell so as to produce a musical sound, as one at the front door of a house by which visitors announce their presence.
- chimes — Plural form of chime.
- chimps — Plural form of chimp.
- chomps — Plural form of chomp.
- chrism — a mixture of olive oil and balsam used for sacramental anointing in the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches
- chrom- — chromo-
- chroma — the attribute of a colour that enables an observer to judge how much chromatic colour it contains irrespective of achromatic colour present
- chrome — to plate or be plated with chromium, usually by electroplating
- chromo — chromolithograph
- chromy — having a chrome colour or containing chrome
- chulym — a river in S central Siberia, Russia, flowing N and W to the Ob River. 1075 miles (1730 km) long.
- chummy — If people or social events are chummy, they are pleasant and friendly.
- chumps — Plural form of chump.
- chumpy — Short and fat, particularly in comparison with something of more favourable dimensions.
- chymic — chemistry.
- cilium — any of the short thread-like projections on the surface of a cell, organism, etc, whose rhythmic beating causes movement of the organism or of the surrounding fluid
- cimbal — (obsolete) A kind of confectionery or cake.
- cimbri — a Germanic people from N Jutland who migrated southwards in the 2nd century bc: annihilated by Marius in the Po valley (101 bc)
- cimier — the crest of a helmet
- cinema — A cinema is a place where people go to watch films for entertainment.
- civism — good citizenship
- claime — Obsolete spelling of claim.
- claims — Plural form of claim.
- clammy — Something that is clammy is unpleasantly damp or sticky.
- clamor — If people are clamoring for something, they are demanding it in a noisy or angry way.
- clamps — Plural form of clamp.
- clem's — a male given name, form of Clement.
- cleome — any herbaceous or shrubby plant of the mostly tropical capparidaceous genus Cleome, esp C. spinosa, cultivated for their clusters of white or purplish flowers with long stamens
- climax — The climax of something is the most exciting or important moment in it, usually near the end.
- climbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of climb.
- climes — Plural form of clime.
- clomps — Plural form of clomp.
- clumps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clump.
- clumpy — Clumpy means big and clumsy.
- clumsy — A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken.
- cmu cl — CMU Common Lisp
- cnemis — the shin or tibia
- cobham — Sir John, Oldcastle, Sir John.
- cocomo — Constructive Cost Model
- coelom — the body cavity of many multicellular animals, situated in the mesoderm and containing the digestive tract and other visceral organs
- coempt — to buy up (something) in its entirety
- colima — a state of SW Mexico, on the Pacific coast: mainly a coastal plain, rising to the foothills of the Sierra Madre, with important mineral resources. Capital: Colima. Pop: 238 000 (2005 est). Area: 5455 sq km (2106 sq miles)
- collum — (anatomy) A neck or cervix.
- colmar — a city in NE France: annexed to Germany 1871–1919 and 1940–45; textile industry. Pop: 65 136 (1999)
- column — A column is a tall, often decorated cylinder of stone which is built to honour someone or forms part of a building.
- comake — to make together